To all of you gun lovers, feel free to go buy your Glock, shotgun, hunting rifle, .22 pistol, .357 Magnum or any of the other guns at your disposal.
Tucked away in Manitoba, for several weeks each autumn, is the largest wild polar bear concentration in the world.
Investigators are trying to determine what set off a Long Island man who was killed in a standoff with police after he crashed his pickup truck into a utility pole and then fired on responding paramedics.
Here's what you need to know right now as results come in for Tuesday's midterm election:
In addition to picking their local and state lawmakers, voters across the country will decide on dozens of ballot measures covering everything from marijuana to fishing rights.
Fmr. Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash in Alaska. A pilot talks about flying in and out of the area.
Searchers looking for the airplane that slammed into the side of a tree-covered Alaskan mountainside earlier this month couldn't detect an emergency locator signal after the impact damaged the craft's transmitter, according to a federal report released on Wednesday.
Want to be cremated, but worry that your ashes will just end up sitting in some boring urn?
Guy Harvey has devoted his life to conservation of marine ecology and painting the game fish he tries to preserve.
Whether he's out on the ocean monitoring stingrays in the Caribbean, or back on land painting in his studio, Guy Harvey spends all his time surrounded by fish.
Megan Fox says she was well prepared for her weapon-packing role in Jonah Hex
A new flow of oil emerged from BP's damaged undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening after a remote-controlled submarine successfully cut into the well's riser pipe.
Underwater video shows a blade cutting through the riser pipe as part of the 'cut and cap' process to cap the oil leak.
Frustration is growing in the Gulf after the best hope yet of capping the leak was declared a failure.
Rep. Edward Markey on Monday challenged the assertion by oil giant BP's chief executive that no underwater oil plumes have formed because of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
The federal government ordered another 1,200 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing Monday due to the ongoing oil spill off Louisiana, extending the restricted zone toward the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi.
FSB: Mardi Gras on iceupdated: Mon Dec 28 2009 09:17:00
For more than an hour I watched half-naked revelers jump into the 34° waters of Leech Lake. Some held hands, and others did backflips; all wore costumes. There were young women in prom dresses; gray-haired ladies with pink boas; big, furry men holding up their trunks with suspenders; and one gutsy woman who wore nothing but pink hot pants and a flimsy white T-shirt.
Fantasy football drafts are firing up, and workplace productivity will soon grind to a halt as half the office spends half the day managing their rosters in an attempt to get the next Steve Slaton off the waiver wire. Just because you're not a football fan doesn't mean you have to be left out of the fantasy mania, though. There are all sorts of alternative fantasy leagues you can join. Why not try one of these?
After a town hall meeting on health-care reform in Belgrade, Montana, President Obama will escape to Big Sky country on Friday evening where he'll spend time with family and go fly-fishing for the first time.
When commercial diver Kenny Woodside takes to the depths, he enters a world of murky low light and dangerous currents.
About $5 million in federal stimulus money will pay to recover thousands of nets littering coastal waters. Patrick Oppman reports.
Gun shops across the country are reporting a run on ammunition, a phenomenon apparently driven by fear that the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or enact new gun-control measures.
After suffering massive injuries, Brian Mancini's healing process led him to CNN Hero Ed Nicholson's program.
Amidst the tranquility of a fishing trip at the Rose River Farm in Madison County, a wounded warrior says he almost feels "semi-normal again."
The anxiety welled up in my lungs as we drove across alligator alley, filling my chest cavity with nervous and increasingly toxic ionized air. My earlobes were sweating -- an entirely new and startling development -- and I fumbled with the car radio in a desperate attempt to find some unnatural force to distract me from my minor panic attack. In the end, the only station that came in clearly was broadcasting the elevator sounds of a pre-Gwyneth Paltrow Coldplay block that, unsurprisingly, did not do the job. I wondered aloud, "If I vomit on the side of the road, will the smell of it attract a gator?"
Three years ago, Phillip Loughlin made a choice he knew would brand him as an outsider with many of his fellow hunters:
A risky move to ice fish on unstable ice leaves fishermen stranded and needing rescue. WTOL reports.
An Ohio sheriff had harsh words for ice fishermen who had to be rescued Saturday after high winds and rising temperatures caused an ice floe to break away and strand about 150 of them on Lake Erie.
CNN's Michael Ware speaks to survivors and victims of the Nisoor Square Blackwater shooting.
Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted on voluntary manslaughter and other charges in connection with killings in Iraq were released on their own recognizance Monday after a court hearing.
While baseball may have steroids and football may have illicit videotaping, many minor sports outside the mainstream have been shaken by major scandals of their own. Here are eight of our favorites that don't involve performance-enhancing drugs or Tonya Harding.
Corey Carter spends a quarter of his paycheck on gas.
On a crisp November morning Pietro Gussalli Beretta watches as a white spaniel points at a tangle of underbrush. The setting is a cornfield on a northern Italian estate near the banks of the Po.
We've learned that some varieties of fish are low in fat and contain oils that keep the heart healthy. But recent reports about contaminants such as mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have prompted some health experts to rethink their advice about seafood.
CNN's Dana Bash joins Mike Huckabee, the press, and his entourage on a brief hunting excursion in Osceola, Iowa.
Fanny Krieger of San Francisco probably has more fly-fishing tales in her repertoire than Ernest Hemingway.
Hunters remain a powerful force in American society, as evidenced by the presidential candidates who routinely pay them homage, but their ranks are shrinking dramatically and wildlife agencies worry increasingly about the loss of sorely needed license-fee revenue.
Last week's column about PETA asking the NFL to include cruelty to animals among the violations in its Code of Personal Conduct drew passionate response, much of it from hunters such as Dave Winkworth of Pittsburgh, PA, who wrote:
Deer hunting could be a dangerous endeavor for men with heart disease or risk factors for it, research findings suggest.
The best new flies and lures, made and field-tested by entrepreneurs.
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FSB: Skating for Fishupdated: Thu Feb 01 2007 00:01:00
IN PAST YEARS ice fishing meant pitching a small "fish house" onto the ice, chiseling a hole, and hoping you'd chosen a spot with hungry fish. That was until Tom Lykken, engineer, avid fisherman, a...
In past years ice fishing meant pitching a small "fish house" onto the ice, chiseling a hole, and hoping you'd chosen a spot with hungry fish.
Some 300 million to 400 million years ago, a funny-looking fish with a giant nose swam the planet's primeval waterways. Today its female descendants produce some of the tastiest roe this side of Ir...
Brady Bunte was trolling for marlin off the coast of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico when he saw what looked like a "submarine coming out of the water" - a 565-pound monster had just hit his line. It was ...
In Hampshire in Southern England, the River Test is a trout-rich environment.
There are a million things I didn't know about taking a cruise. For instance, this: Upon boarding, you're separated from your luggage for an indeterminate amount of time. Until then, you're stuck wearing what you're wearing. In the case of my cruise to Alaska aboard the Norwegian Sun, that would've meant jeans -- less than ideal when you have four hours to spend poolside before heading into the mist.
Scratch the tie, the cheesy "I love D-A-D" mug and the DVD set of the "Sopranos."
An explosion at a rifle range in Istanbul left 14 people injured on Thursday, according to local media reports.
There are plenty of fish in the sea - and in the rivers and lakes and streams. And you may have dusted off your fly-fishing pole recently in anticipation of catching some of them this summer.
The Volkswagen Golf is going back to its Rabbit roots.
Money Magazine: 05 Family Travelupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 16:42:00
So obviously, an activity-packed destination is a must. But which destination? That depends on the kinds of activities most likely to engage your particular brood: the bright lights of the Big Apple, where we hear there's a lot to do, or the rugged charms of a Colorado dude ranch, where the nonstop diversions include fly fishing, white-water rafting and, of course, horseback riding. --D.R. AND K.A. ...
Business 2.0: Angler's Oasisupdated: Tue Nov 01 2005 00:01:00
Autumn leaves, blue skies, and smallmouth bass: just another day at the office for employees at Orvis, the 149-year-old outdoor apparel and equipment manufacturer. Nestled at the foot of Vermont's ...
FSB: Small-Game Hunterupdated: Tue Nov 01 2005 00:01:00
Steve Rogers, owner of Rogers Sporting Goods in Liberty, Mo., watched with mounting concern as outdoor mail-order giant Cabela's built a new store in Kansas City, 40 minutes north. The 180,000-squa...
Fortune: Big game huntingupdated: Mon Oct 31 2005 00:01:00
Take-Two Interactive Software sucked most of the air out of last year's holiday videogame buying season, selling more than five million copies of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. But there's no full-...
Money Magazine: 05 Family Travelupdated: Thu Sep 01 2005 00:01:00
No matter what age your kids are, the potential pitfall of any family vacation remains the same: boredom. Children need constant entertainment, especially when removed from their natural habitat. S...
A Russian submarine that had been trapped nearly 190 meters (625 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was raised Sunday, and all seven crew members are alive, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet has confirmed.
All right, we admit it: We had fun researching this story. When charged to find the best seafood dives along the South's saltwater shores, we jumped in, belly first.
It's hot in July, and it seems even hotter at the big theme parks. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy them, though. How so? Chill out with a little H2 Oh!
A $14,000 shotgun and a pricey mountain bike were among the gifts President Bush accepted last year, according to financial disclosure forms on the president and vice president the White House released Friday.
Thirty yards off the stern, a dark shape rose against the surface, and the mates yelled, "Bella, bella, bella!"
Business 2.0: Luring 'Em Inupdated: Tue Mar 01 2005 00:01:00
At the Bass Pro Shops flagship store in Springfield, Mo.--the largest hunting and fishing outlet in the country--avid archer Fred Baum strolls among stuffed bears, bobcats, and elk, and then heads ...
The weekend shootings of a group of deer hunters in northwestern Wisconsin claimed a sixth life Monday, hospital officials and the man's family said.
FSB: Barrels of Funupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
I'm breaking clay targets with my over/under shotgun, but instructor Gil Ash doesn't like the way I'm shooting them. Ash says my follow-through is excessive and unnecessary, a bad habit I've taught...
Bob Elderkin's vote would appear to be a sure bet for President Bush on November 2. He is a hunter, part of a conservative-leaning group of outdoorsmen that is 38 million strong and avidly supports gun rights.
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Cowboy is cool.
Big Video Game Hunting contacted Bill Dugan to discuss the creation of the "Spider-Man 2" video game.
CNNMoney: Bass backwards?updated: Fri Apr 23 2004 10:30:00
Professional athletes who pay to play.
Canada is once again at the center of an environmental row as it begins the largest seal hunt in more than half a century.
Hey, sports fans, remember when you were a kid and you'd make up sports leagues? That professional dart association in your basement could now be a thriving business and not just a childhood fanta...
Think fly-fishing, and chances are you'll picture a secluded stream in Montana or Vermont. A peaceful place like the one in A River Runs Through It, the movie that made the sport famous, it will ha...
There are executives who set lofty goals for themselves: turn their company into an industry beater, develop a world-changing technology, maybe even have a business dictum named after them. Then th...
Bruce Sterling, a science fiction writer, lives in Austin, Texas. His books include A Good Old-Fashioned Future and The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. He was intervi...
Old raiders never die. They just wallow in their sinking legacies. Carl Icahn bangs like a barbarian at Nabisco's gates. Saul Steinberg struggles to salvage his empire. Ron Perelman shuffles assets...
If ever there was a time when the gun lobby should be vanquished, it is now. This year alone, there have been Columbine (15 dead, 23 wounded), the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth (eight dead,...
One of them wrote what Bill Gates calls "probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business." The other originated a phrase and an anticonformist idea that still shape ...
As described in the preceding pages ("The Future of Retirement," page 86), the great baby-boomer cohort is facing later years that are likely to be more about job sharing than shuffleboard, more ab...
Here's the fastest way to trigger an explosion of firearms sales: gun control legislation. Americans fearing pistol purchasing impediments in last September's crime bill catapulted gun sales beyond...
Toasters, hell! Red-blooded bank depositors who can't abide sissy premiums can get a shotgun or a rifle when they buy CDs from Colorado's Bank of Boulder. Boulder's program picks up steam in late J...
TO EVERYTHING, there is a season. And for things that hop, quack, bare their teeth, or gambol through woods, the season for being hunted is over. Oh, you can still shoot something, if you must. Ask...
ALL GUNS are born innocent. There's no such thing as a gun designed for criminal use. Everything that goes bang -- pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns -- begins life as a response to the legit...
Do you imagine the man in the corner office vacationing only in the Swiss Alps or swank resorts on the French Riviera? In many cases you'd be wrong. Many CEOs prefer to stay on the North American m...
First Fisherman George Bush knows that what you catch depends on your bait. Collectors know it too. And in recent years, it has been antique fishing lures -- all of them at least 50 years older tha...
IMAGINE A NEW FORM of information storage that would hold encyclopedic amounts of data but could slip into a personal computer or workstation as easily as a floppy disk does -- and could be erased ...
On any given morning, Wall Street executives pick up shotguns instead of briefcases and head for the wilds of Dutchess County, New York, to shoot clay targets that simulate the different flight pat...
America's lakes, rivers, and streams are thick with them: swarms of fly- fishermen. In ever-increasing numbers, they read the river, match the hatch, and cast furry hooks with bug-lauding names lik...
It is dusk, and you are standing waist-deep in the cold waters of the Beaverkill River in New York's Catskill Mountains, fabled among fishermen for a century for its brown trout. You sweep the tip ...
Ever since their father took them on elephant safaris in Kenya as children, the Havens brothers have been shooting. Timothy M. Havens, 41, president of Newbold's Asset Management in Philadelphia, h...
The big man flicked the fly out of the water and sent it back over his shoulder. For a magical moment the white fishing line was straightened out behind him; then it shot forward. The fly entered t...
Avid angler Robert E. Meier, 54, a vice president at Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex, fishes for trout in Wisconsin streams upwards of 40 times a year. But on a recent fall Saturday he was wading ...
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